SOURCE: "A Terrible Trajectory: The Impact of Apartheid, Prison and Exile on Dennis Brutus's Poetry," in Essays on African Writing: A Re-evaluation, edited by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Heinemann, 1993, pp. 38-55.
In the following essay, Chipasula argues that the strains and pressures of the apartheid state, rather than inspiring Brutus, actually limited the extent of his poetic achievement.
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